Before World War I, artificial limbs were nearly always made of wood, although they were sometimes wrongly called “cork legs.” Wooden legs, in Minnesota and elsewhere, were made by craftsmen ...

The snowshoes were made by John Tetlichi in the 1950s, and he gifted them to an RCMP officer who had been transferred to work in Aklavik, N.W.T. That officer was Robert Feagan's father ...

A pile of amputated limbs and the remains of several military horses have been excavated at the site of the Battle of Waterloo. The gruesome discovery was made at a farm in Belgium by Waterloo ...